Category Archives: Releases

More or less complete code snippets and other goodies.

Use macOS native color picker in VS Code (like “Insert Color” in TextMate)

Posted on May 9, 2020 by Dae

A tiny extension for Visual Studio Code, written by me (GitHub).

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Refresh web-browser without leaving VS Code

Posted on March 15, 2020 by Dae

I’ve created an extension for VS Code which lets you refresh your web-browser (Safari or Chrome) by pressing Cmd-R without leaving VS Code. Meet Refresh Browser (GitHub).

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Make VLC show the title of a streaming video

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Dae

I’ve created a tiny VLC extension that makes VLC show the title of the currently playing streaming video. It allows you to set custom titles even for the streams that you don’t own (e.g. from YouTube). For more information, see: … Continue reading →

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Sample AppleScript + Bash uninstaller

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Dae

Should you ever need to write an uninstaller for your macOS app, feel free to base it on our project—written entirely in AppleScript and Bash: https://github.com/SmoothMouse/Uninstaller

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Paste text even when prohibited in macOS (password dialogs etc)

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Dae

I wrote a tiny AppleScript application which pastes text into fields which do not allow Cmd+V pasting (like password prompts). This may come in handy when working through VNC/remote desktop or virtualization software (such as Apple Screen Sharing, Parallels Desktop … Continue reading →

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Draw polylines on HTML5 canvas

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Dae

jquery-polyline — a jQuery UI widget for drawing polylines. See it in action. Written by Victor Novikov (@Forkest) for Cyberic. License: MIT license.

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Run Python, Ruby, PHP, Bash scripts in Terminal without stealing focus from TextMate

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Dae

I wrote a simple TextMate 1.5 bundle to run Python, Ruby, PHP, Bash scripts in Terminal without stealing focus from the TextMate window. It can easily be modified to run the language of your choice.

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OS X will never be the same

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Dae

SmoothMouse.com. Happy New Year!

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Demo of Highslide gallery with Ajax URLs

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Dae

Update: a pure Javascript implementation by setnicka. Highslide is an excellent JavaScript library for making galleries, but there’s one feature I was really missing in it: Ajax URLs or URLs which change as you browse images on the page. Thankfully developers … Continue reading →

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AppleScript to mount/unmount a drive

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Dae

On my Mac Pro I have two internal hard drives I rarely use. Some times they “sleep” and while doing so, every file opening dialog, search in Spotlight or search in Dictionary might wake them up and that takes some … Continue reading →

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